Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

There are several versions of the same portrait-type by B. R. Faulkner; the first of these appears to have been the three-quarter length painting offered to the NPG by P. H. Simpson, 1874, probably the portrait engraved by R. Hart, published Captain J. Ross, 1834 (example in NPG), for his Appendix to the Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, II (1835), frontispiece (the engraving shows a three-quarter length pose), and possibly the portrait owned by the sitter, the head of which was lithographed by R. J. Lane, published J. Dickinson, 1834 (example in NPG); a second half-length version by Faulkner is in the Scottish NPG, recorded and sketched by G. Scharf, 1874, Sir George Scharf's Trustees' Sketch Books (NPG archives), XIX, 53; a third half-length version, wrongly attributed to Sir W. Beechey, was in the collection of Major A. S. Grant, apparently the portrait sold at Christie's, 24 June 1960 (lot 110), bought Frost and Reed; a different portrait-type by Faulkner was exhibited SKM, 1868 (419), and possibly RA, 1834 (261); the SKM portrait shows Ross with the order of the Bath, awarded him in 1834; Faulkner exhibited another painting RA, 1829 (87), probably one of the versions already listed.
A painting and a water-colour by unknown artists are in the Royal Geographical Society, London, the former exhibited Royal Naval Exhibition, Chelsea, 1891 (30); a painting by an unknown artist of c.1833 is in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich; a painting by an unknown artist was in the collection of Charles Dawson, 1896; a painting by Lambert was in the collection of Mrs Lambert, 1870, sketched by G. Scharf, Sir George Scharf's Trustees' Sketch Books (NPG archives), XV, 82; a painting by an unidentified artist (signed 'TRW') was sold Christie's, 9 December 1876 (lot 27), sketch in Scharf's NPG sale catalogue; a painting by J. Hayter was exhibited RA, 1834 (306), probably the painting recorded and sketched by G. Scharf, 1868, Sir George Scharf's Trustees' Sketch Books (NPG archives), XI, 41; a painting by J. Brassington was exhibited RA, 1836 (35); miniatures by Mrs Hamilton and H. Hervé were exhibited RA, 1834 (822), and 1843 (721); there is a bronze medallion by David d'Angers of 1836 (example in Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers); there is an engraving by W. Watkins, after T. H. Shepherd, published J. Saunders, 1835 (example in NPG), and a lithograph by H. Gouldsmith, published Gouldsmith, 1833 (example in NPG); an engraving by D. Maclise (example in NPG) was published Fraser's Magazine, IX (1834), facing 64, as no. 44 of Maclise's 'Gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters'; there are several popular engravings and lithographs in the NPG; a photograph is reproduced as a woodcut ILN, XXIX (1856), 275.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.